{"id":60878,"date":"2020-12-26T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5fe2b65e2225bac8ffe77cb6a665320e"},"modified":"2020-12-26T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T18:03:36","slug":"pardon-me-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/26\/pardon-me-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon me, President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-300x199.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"A still from a video shows a man speaking and the PBS newshour logo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-740x490.png 740w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-504x334.png 504w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-1019x675.png 1019w, https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM.png 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>President Donald Trump has granted clemency to several controversial people, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump\u2019s friend and political operative Roger Stone. But what about the people who have applied through the official process and are waiting for answers?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/episodes\/all-the-presidents-pardons\/\">we met Charles \u201cDuke\u201d Tanner<\/a>, a former boxer who was sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted of a nonviolent drug trafficking crime, his first offense. His arrest came during the war on drugs, which started in the 1980s, disproportionately putting tens of thousands of Black men in prison for decades. Tanner applied for clemency twice, his application just one among 13,000 others waiting for a decision at the federal Office of the Pardon Attorney when our show about him first aired on Reveal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this piece for the PBS NewsHour, in the wake of receiving clemency from Trump, we accompany Tanner back to Gary, Indiana, as he plans a boxing comeback. We also explore why Tanner\u2019s sentence commutation was so unusual for this administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UKlOJ1ehb8k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Michael I Schiller can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:mschiller@revealnews.org\"><em>mschiller@revealnews.org<\/em><\/a><em>, and David Ritsher can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:dritsher@revealnews.org\"><em>dritsher@revealnews.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/article\/pardon-me-president-trump\">Pardon me, President Trump<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/\">Reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/article\/pardon-me-president-trump\">Reveal<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-26-at-10.04.48-AM-300x199.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"A still from a video shows a man speaking and the PBS newshour logo\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boxer Charles \u201cDuke\u201d Tanner, among the few to receive clemency from President Donald Trump, returns to his hometown after spending 16 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/article\/pardon-me-president-trump\">Pardon me, President Trump<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/revealnews.org\/\">Reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3941,4134,49,4306],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70953,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60878\/revisions\/70953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}